Golconde Puducherry Hailed as the first modernist structure in India, this dormitory at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram was designed by architects Antonin Raymond and George Nakashima, and built between 1937 and 1945. The building comprises two long, horizontal wings, joined by a stairwell in the middle. The length of each wing is lined with single rooms along a corridor. The most remarkable fea
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GolcondePuducherry The dormitory was built by devotees of the ashram, some of whom also donated brass utensils, which were then melted and recast as fixtures. Nakashima, who was highly influenced by the teachings of Aurobindo Ghosh and Mirra Alfassa, selected material like black granite for the floors, which complement the texture and colour of the teak and concrete.
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Centre for Development StudiesThiruvananthapuramThe Centre for Development Studies (CDS) is an eloquent testimony to the cost-effective and environment-friendly architecture popularised by Laurence ‘Laurie’ Baker, the British-born architect, who made India his home for 50 years. His buildings are examples of prolific brick masonry construction, the replacing of windows with brick jali wal
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Vidhan BhavanBhopal The government of Madhya Pradesh commissioned the building of the state assembly in Bhopal in 1980, with Charles Correa as its designer. Construction began in 1983, and continued for the next 10 years. Many factors have influenced the form of the structure: Its location on the crest of a hill, the Islamic monuments in the neighbourhood and the Buddhist stupa at Sanchi,
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High Court and Palace of JusticeChandigarh Designed by Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier, the structure is defined by its parasol-like roof and the three giant 60-feet tall columns in bright colours that form the entrance. It has an abbreviated L-shaped plan, with eight law courts and a high court on the ground floor, and offices on the first floor. The long facade of the building that
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Jawahar Kala KendraJaipur In the 17th century, Maharaja Jai Singh designed and built Jaipur based on the Vedic concept of vaastu-purush-mandala—a square, subdivided into identical squares. The city’s master plan was based on a vaastu-purush-mandala of nine squares. More than three hundred years later, in 1986, Charles Correa based the design of the Jawahar Kala Kendra on Jai Singh’s desig
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India Habitat Centre New Delhi India Habitat Centre (IHC) was conceived by the Housing and Urban Development Corporation Ltd (Hudco) and architect Joseph Stein as a space that would bring together individuals and institutions working in various fields related to habitat.The 30-metre high building has a red-brick facade, and vertical and horizontal ribbon windows that use special glass to
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Lotus Temple New Delhi The Bahá’í House of Worship, popularly Lotus Temple, was designed by Iranian architect Fariborz Sahba and completed in 1986. The international governing body of the Bahá’í community selected Sahba to design the temple in 1976 he worked on it for 10 years.In accordance with Bahá’í scripture, the temple is circular, with nine sides that comprise 27 ‘leaves’ (Grecian m
